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Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims
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Anonymous
I think there’s a more traditional way to make the leap - for example Baldoni was given the opportunity to direct an episode of Jane the Virgin then found his own projects to direct from the ground up. And by appearances Lively isn’t successful at the creative collaboration efforts or knowing her lane and the right way to move into more creative control. instead she does disruptive things, like strong-arming herself into costuming or insisting on totally rewriting a scene. |
Anonymous
Good question, she and RR surely have the means to create something. It appears as though they lack the talent to initiate anything original. |
Anonymous
It's not fawning and it is relevant. People are talking about how Lively was "grasping" for control over costuming but the reality is that the costumer on the movie, who was hired by Wayfarer, did what he wanted to do and the costumes reflect his work and sensibility. She didn't take control over the costuming from him -- it looks like his work and he's spoken openly about being proud of the costumes for the film AND having had a good experience working with Lively. Why is Wayfarer accusing Lively of taking over the costuming when the actual costumer designer THEY hired does not appear to think that's what happened and has nothing but good things to say about Lively? It doesn't make sense. |
Anonymous
I think you’re right. I think Baldoni and his team might even know it. I still feel bad for Baldoni for being the unwitting poster child of the horrors of PR smearing/retaliation, because I don’t think he harassed her and I think he was justifiably angry at her and he suffered too. But this is where we probably are. Then Lively supporters are going to very smug and sanctimonious. This whole case is just layer upon layer on irony. |
Anonymous
There are interviews with her proudly stating that she wore her own clothes, boots, wore Gigi Hadid’s clothes, etc… |
Anonymous
He did not do what he wanted to do. There are numerous instances where she brags about styling herself for the movie. |
Anonymous
I suppose she was just ‘collaborating’. Which other characters wore their own clothes? Who dressed the other actors? |
Anonymous
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If you actually look at the costumes, they are clearly Daman's costumes. It sounds like they worked collaboratively and that Lively also brought in items that Daman incorporated. But if you have any familiarity with Daman's costuming -- Lily looks the way I would expect her to look.
A lot of the things people have criticized about the costuming are Daman hallmarks. Like people criticize the layering, the use of menswear pieces, and the incorporation of very high end items which it would be unrealistic for the character to be able to afford. But this is how Daman costumes. Here's an interview with Daman on the costuming for the film. He calls his relationship with Lively "symbiotic." Again, this is who Baldoni and Wayfarer hired. https://www.glamour.com/story/it-ends-with-us-costume-designer-blake-lively-gossip-girl-easter-eggs |
Anonymous
Because she doesn’t read and she doesn’t have good ideas. |
Anonymous
I’d like to laugh at your prediction. No one has publicly supported Lively once Baldino dropped the rooftop audio. If Kendrick was down with BL, this would be a time to show it, in support of their film. If exonerating material for BL was juuuuust around the corner, Apatow and Handler wouldn’t crack on her. They wouldn’t laugh at a woman being smeared or subjected to retaliation let alone SH. I don’t recall anyone making wisecracks about anyone allegedly SH or SA by Weinstein or Dan Schneider or Bryan Singer and so forth. No one would do anything equivalent to an eye-roll about the fundamental victim claims and we all know it. She is over. She is at this point in a corner she and she alone - unless her husband is indeed guiding these shtty decisions - put her in. A humiliating confession is all that can save her and she can’t do it. |
Anonymous
I guess we'll see. But what is "the rooftop audio"? |
Anonymous
No, she doesn’t. Because the fact is, Sony and wayfarer said a few times in the texts, check her contract. Meaning she was not contracted to do the things that she wanted to do. They did let her have control of wardrobe, which ended up being a disaster, but they let her. She was not supposed to in anyway edit the film. In fact, she violated the rule from SAG that the director had 10 days to edit without anyone’s input. She edited during that time. They let her in the editing bay for two days, she was in there for nine I believe. She also hired the Deadpool editor herself. She went way above and beyond where her contract was. She also had Ryan’s company maximum effort, or whatever market the film. That was part of the cringe factor, the gross interview. He did with Brandon where he acted jealous, and another, where the girls from the cast were baking together, which was just really tone deaf. Not at all in her contract. Can you imagine if someone not married to Ryan Reynolds waltzed up to the CEO of their company and started pouting that they want to contribute more and therefore start doing his or her job? Probably wouldn’t go over too well. It’s just not how the real world works, but Blake has never been told no so here we are. |
Anonymous
It is downright delusional to have the take that Blake is going to survive this. If this were a true me too moment, female actresses would be coming out of the woodwork to share their story like Abigail B and Kate beckinsdale did early on. But once Justin started releasing his take, no one has said a damn word. Blake’s team is giving talking points, they have released statements about DARVO and the abusers playbook, and no one in Hollywood is picking up and running with them. And like others have pointed out it’s now being joked about at award shows and on red carpets. If these were serious allegations people would not be joking. |
Anonymous
I’m very interested to find out what actions were taken during Baldoni’s PR campaign. I do think everything kind of depends on that. I think that angle of things is why the NYT got involved in the first place. If Wallace planted stories or had people out there commenting in Reddit to “shift the tone,” I think that’s showing the kind of retaliation against Lively that Baldoni specifically signed an agreement saying he would not do. If Wallace just released press statements and didn’t do anything underhanded, I strongly suspect Lively’s SH claims aren’t strong enough by themselves to win. But I don’t know. I have been going through Baldoni’s amended complaint and I think it’s poorly written and, in places, actually deceptive fwiw. |
Anonymous
| If details about real astroturfing by Wallace come out, I’d expect Lively’s support by female actresses to increase. Because they know that sh!t can happen to them too at the drop of a dime if they get on the wrong side of the wrong person (in this case someone who is backed by a billionaire who follows the same religion — which, btw, seems a little cultish to me in all the proselytizing that is required of members etc). |